My Imprisoments : Memoirs of Silvio Pellico da Saluzzo

xxxix, 249 pp. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Black leather title label to spine. Slight wear to spine and extremities. Boards rubbed. Internally clean. The author, writer and patriot, was imprisoned in 1820 for ten years, for conspiring 'to improve the political conditions of his country.' The book was banned in Italy and 'read with proportionate eagerness.'